C Jobs in the South West

C
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring C skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited C over the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 78 138
Rank change year-on-year -56 +60 -11
Permanent jobs citing C 49 283 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.24% 2.91% 1.92%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.99% 10.24% 5.20%
Number of salaries quoted 32 214 60
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £63,188 £72,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £76,875 £80,000 £83,017
England median annual salary £57,836 £57,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +0.15% -7.60% +8.70%

All Programming Languages
South West

C falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 981 2,765 2,347
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 24.85% 28.47% 37.02%
Number of salaries quoted 663 2,088 1,622
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,513
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £71,175
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

C
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing C as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for C in the South West

C
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing C in the South West.

Salary trend for C in the South West

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Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing C in the South West over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for C in the South West

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Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing C within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucestershire -1 20 £52,500 -12.50% 46
Bristol +7 15 £55,000 -8.33% 44
Devon +5 6 £45,000 +12.50% 6
Dorset -19 5 £48,750 -11.36% 4
Wiltshire +4 2 £66,250 -1.85% 6
Somerset +3 1 £62,500 +25.00% 9
C
England

C
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Simulink
1 4 (8.16%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.04%) AWS
1 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (2.04%) GitHub
1 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) 5G
1 4 (8.16%) SD-WAN
1 4 (8.16%) Software-Defined Radio
1 4 (8.16%) WAN
1 4 (8.16%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (4.08%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) GSM
3 1 (2.04%) HTTP
3 1 (2.04%) Internet
3 1 (2.04%) J1939
3 1 (2.04%) Wideband
3 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) SQLite
2 1 (2.04%) Big Data
2 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (16.33%) GitLab
2 7 (14.29%) Git
2 7 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 4 (8.16%) LabVIEW
4 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.12%) JIRA
5 2 (4.08%) GDB
5 2 (4.08%) Subversion
6 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.04%) CMake
6 1 (2.04%) GCC
6 1 (2.04%) gcov
6 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.04%) WiX
General
1 17 (34.69%) Manufacturing
2 13 (26.53%) Electronics
3 7 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Aerospace
4 6 (12.24%) Marketing
5 5 (10.20%) Automotive
5 5 (10.20%) Finance
5 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Avionics
7 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.04%) Aviation
8 1 (2.04%) Back Office
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Legal
8 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Software Engineer
2 13 (26.53%) Senior
3 11 (22.45%) Embedded Engineer
3 11 (22.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 8 (16.33%) Electronics Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) C Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) DSP Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Embedded C Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Embedded C Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Process Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Real Time Embedded Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Real Time Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Real Time Software Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Test Development Engineer
6 4 (8.16%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) HTML
2 3 (6.12%) OpenCL
3 2 (4.08%) XML
4 1 (2.04%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (2.04%) HTML5
4 1 (2.04%) Qt
4 1 (2.04%) React
4 1 (2.04%) Redux
4 1 (2.04%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) Analogue Electronics
2 5 (10.20%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (10.20%) FPGA
3 4 (8.16%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.16%) Device Driver
3 4 (8.16%) GNSS
3 4 (8.16%) Self-Driving Car
3 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.16%) Verilog
3 4 (8.16%) VHDL
4 3 (6.12%) CUDA
4 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.12%) IoT
4 3 (6.12%) PCIe
5 2 (4.08%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (4.08%) e-Learning
5 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.04%) CAN bus
6 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (38.78%) Linux
2 5 (10.20%) Windows
3 2 (4.08%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (2.04%) Android
4 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.04%) SafeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
2 14 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 11 (22.45%) Mathematics
3 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.41%) Validation
5 9 (18.37%) Agile
5 9 (18.37%) Computer Science
5 9 (18.37%) Mentoring
6 8 (16.33%) Configuration Management
7 7 (14.29%) Physics
8 6 (12.24%) Scrum
8 6 (12.24%) Signal Processing
9 5 (10.20%) Digital Signal Processing
9 5 (10.20%) Multithreading
9 5 (10.20%) Requirements Analysis
9 5 (10.20%) UML
10 4 (8.16%) B2B
10 4 (8.16%) CAD
10 4 (8.16%) Product Marketing
10 4 (8.16%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (65.31%) C++
2 29 (59.18%) Python
3 12 (24.49%) Embedded C
4 4 (8.16%) MATLAB
4 4 (8.16%) Rust
5 3 (6.12%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) Go
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) PHP
6 2 (4.08%) Tcl
6 2 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.04%) Ada
7 1 (2.04%) C#
7 1 (2.04%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (48.98%) Degree
2 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) PhD
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.04%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.16%) PMO
2 2 (4.08%) DO-178B
2 2 (4.08%) IEC 61508
2 2 (4.08%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.04%) Def Stans
3 1 (2.04%) IEC 62304
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 26262
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) JTAG
3 1 (2.04%) MISRA
System Software
1 10 (20.41%) Firmware
2 2 (4.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) EMC
2 4 (8.16%) Intel
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) Graphcore
4 2 (4.08%) SAP
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) QNX
5 1 (2.04%) Xilinx